African coffee producers expect low prices on the world market in 2016 as high output from Brazil could hurt the prospects for any increase.

“Brazilian production is quite high for the coming season, so there is no shortage of coffee and therefore the market can’t support high prices,” Abdullah Bagersh, Chairman of the Africa Fine Coffees Association, said in an interview. “Could prices go lower? Yes, of course because we have seen lower prices than where we are now. So we cannot discount that the market cannot go lower.”